Cheesy Movie Tunes

Had a bit of a moment of nostalgia in the car yesterday when ‘Hungry Eyes’ came on the radio and I couldn’t resist the urge to sing along…luckily there was no one else in the car who could potentially be traumatised for life as a result! So I kept myself busy on the 10 minute drive to Rayners Lane to pick up my friend thinking of other, similarly cheesy tunes from my movie-childhood – and came up with the below:

1. Hungry Eyes (Dirty Dancing) – who could forget Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in the scene that followed him putting her hand on his heart to feel the rhythm of the dance…? ‘Gu-gung….gu-gung….’. Classic.

2. Addicted to Love (Cocktail) – not on the official soundtrack, but by far my favourite song in the movie. I had an interesting conversation a couple of weeks ago trying to explain what a ‘flugelbinder’ is…

8. Show Me Heaven (Days of Thunder) – I remember being one of three of only a handful of people in the cinema when I went to see this. Excellent (horrible) karaoke number.

9. It Must Have Been Love (Pretty Woman) – I think I’m the only female I know who doesn’t love this ‘become a call girl, find the man of your dreams’ of a movie (what??! heinous.) but this song is wonderfully dramatic.

10. Foxy Lady (Wayne’s World) – Actually not that cheesy. “If you spew and she bolts…it was never meant to be.”